Episode 642 Scott Adams: Nuking Hurricanes, Biden’s Brain, Yang’s Nuclear Energy Proposal, Chappelle

Date: 2019-08-27 | Duration: 1:09:09

Topics

Is ALL mental illness curable with the correct medication? Boosting serotonin and dopamine via natural means Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix special is REALLY funny Greenland’s unpaid NATO debt to US…and Greenland “Leasing” Greenland, or purchase in exchange for protection? Beto challenged about pushing the “Fine People” HOAX Beto’s weasel-politician response Biden says he isn’t going nuts Is it nuts to say that, or something else? Is hurricane nuking CRAZY? Maybe, maybe not Andrew Yang embraces SAFE nuclear power as part of his solution Is he the only serious climate change candidate? Amazon fires HOAX Rampant misinformation, misconceptions Fake photos, fake degree of severity Israel just thwarted a DRONE SWARM attack Drone swarms may end public events if one succeeds QUESTION every single claim from BOTH sides of climate change

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gather round everybody you're probably humming and singing the theme song at home sing along now pom pom pom pom pom pom the beauty of the theme song for this periscope is it doesn't have to go any special way you can kind of arrange it any way you want could be pom pom but it could also be boom pom pom pom pom it all works but in any case I think you know you need to be prepared don't come to my periscope unprepared in the morning you know what you need yes you do you need a cup or a mug or glasses time to tell is detected a thermos of last cantina vessel of any kind to hold your liquid I like coffee and if you're prepared you're ready to join me for a little ceremony called the simultaneous it is a good oh my goodness is good it's so good it's legendary

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is good it's so good it's legendary let's boost that dopamine shall we get it goin here it comes
hmm have you noticed some of you have commented that if you don't get your simultaneous sip the whole day feels like there's something wrong it's not working well that's because you have through your own efforts of mine you have rewired your brain to create a new form of pleasure and that new form of pleasure is a simultaneous set because for most of you if you're drinking coffee it actually does make you feel better and doing it with other people makes you feel connected probably boosts your oxytocin I think it boosts your oxytocin I would love to test that but I'll bet you everybody who does the simultaneous sip guess a little little

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simultaneous sip guess a little little extra dopamine little serotonin a little bit of oxytocin it's good stuff which makes me wonder here's my speculative question of the day I like to throw in one highly speculative thinker do you think that all mental illness is incurable because we can't figure out any drugs that work now drugs do work on the number of mental illnesses but the question is this those of you who are regulars to this periscope you have experienced something they should change your frame of reference about everything and what you've experienced is me rewiring your brain literally your brain is now I won't say addicted but you have a preference for and then join the toss the simultaneous set not every one of

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the simultaneous set not every one of you it may be it's a third of you maybe it's 75% I have no idea but I hear I hear quite a few people almost everyday saying how much they enjoy the silent aeneas that it's designed to make you create a trigger in your mind to boost your brain chemistry it's literally designed to do that I intentionally set out and if there's anybody who doesn't know it I'm a trained hypnotist I've been studying persuasion in all its forms for decades so as a trained hypnotist I set out intentionally to create a a good moment that we would all share each day and then reinforce it I am literally rewiring the physical connections in your mind actually physically your brain is different because of all of your experiences but this one is engineered most of your experiences in life are not engineered you're just going forth in your life

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you're just going forth in your life stuff is happening it changes your brain you hope it's good now some things you do intentionally such as take classes or get a massage or something but most of your life is you know irrational unpredictable forces coming at you there are very few things that you actually program to physically change the structure of your mind but we know we can do it most of you have actually done it on this periscope so here's a question how far could you take that and my answer is a lot farther than anybody thinks let me give you some suggestions ironically suggestions the one of the things that hypnotist do is they pair things so they might if if I wanted you to like something I would make you pair it with something you already liked so for example if I wanted

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already liked so for example if I wanted you to love watching a certain television show that maybe wasn't your favorite I could pair that television show with other things that I know you already like so let's say you like hugging your your loved one so if you watch this TV show and every time you did it you were spooning with your loved one this building would cause your your chemistry to improve you'd probably feel some oxytocin from the touching maybe some serotonin little dopamine perhaps and over time you would start associating the TV show that you weren't in love with before you know you didn't hate it but you weren't in love with it you start associate it with those good chemist chemical feelings that you get from the hugging over time you would you would be able to turn on the TV show and your chemistry would spike it wouldn't be as much as if you were hugging but associations trigger certain reactions

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associations trigger certain reactions so in that way you can actually rewire your brain so that a TV show that you weren't in love with before becomes physically pleasurable actually physically and you would feel it your brain chemistry would change your wiring and your brain would change it set up so we know that you can you can make bad bad memories figure you the wrong way and you can make good experiences you program you the right way and we know that those will boost your serotonin and dopamine etc so here's the here's the the speculative part how many mental illnesses are closely associated with a lack of serotonin and dopamine a number of them right a number of them are associated with low chemistry of the of the feel-good type now how that expresses itself is different you know you could have anything from anxiety to depression to OCD you name it so what

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depression to OCD you name it so what would happen if you consciously tried to rewatch to rewire a brain they had bad thoughts could you rewire somebody without drugs simply by association and repetition to be able to boost their own serotonin and dopamine simply mentally well let me tell you this I don't know everybody's different so I the first thing I would assume is that if it worked at all it would not work for everyone because that's just the way the whole world works right things don't work for everyone but my guess is that if you took a million people and try to rewire their brain so that they could intentionally create their own dopamine either by a thought or a trigger or a sound that you would be able to do it now what I don't know and and here's the part I'm positive of I'm positive that part's doable because it's compatible

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part's doable because it's compatible with you know every bit of science every bit of experience it's a hundred percent incompatible with everything we know what I don't know is how effectively you can keep a trigger working over time because it might fade so you might have to reintroduce new triggers you might have to keep it reinforced all the time I myself suffer from terrible thoughts most of my early life and the thoughts were so terrible and mostly it was memories of my early childhood which were a nightmare of epic proportions and I would have these thoughts about all that badness in my past and it would ruin my presence and it was very strong feeling I mean it would really just you race and the ability to enjoy my life now over time I looked for solutions to that one of the solutions is to stay really really busy because if you your brain

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really busy because if you your brain only has so much shelf space so I would exhaust myself with intellectual challenges and things the things that were more more distracting than the thoughts that would creep out if I didn't distract myself so over time I found that I could starve the bad thoughts until they faded in time by simply just bombarding myself with much stronger more important more evocative thoughts now a lot of those thoughts were of a sexual nature meaning that if I was trying to avoid a bad thought I would have to use the strongest possible alternative thought to get the bad one out of my head and there's nothing stronger for most people than a sexual thought so I would have you know I would just put my imagination in that realm and it would just be absorbing now that alone was

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just be absorbing now that alone was enough I have spent my life trying to find ways to boost my serotonin and dopamine through natural means and I've discovered one by one you know additional means I've discovered for example here's a little test to run on yourself like most people I have good days and bad days my bad days tends to be not very bad these days I mean even my worst day is better than most people's good day if I'm to being honest but mentally there are days when you're happy and they're days when you're just like a bla bla bla watch this correlation in your own life watch this on a day when you've exercised over I'll say and/or had sex with somebody you love or even somebody you just like a lot are those days sad what you'll find is an almost perfect correlation between

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is an almost perfect correlation between exercise and sexual activity meaning that if you do either one of those two things the quality of the rest of your day is substantially better and you might not have any different problems than you had on the day that you were sad but just doing those things one of those two things will boost your your body chemistry and the things that used to bother you just won't bother you as much now those are the two biggest correlations that I find obviously the other one who's in sleep if you can't figure out how to get a good night's sleep make it your mission to figure that out there are plenty of articles plenty of things to try there's lots of technique almost everybody who's got a sleeping problem is doing the wrong stuff I can't tell you how many people will say they have a sleeping problem and if I say what do you do at night they say well I read a book or watch TV or they do all the wrong things you're not supposed to be reading a book or

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not supposed to be reading a book or watching a TV in bed your bed should just be for sleeping and sex and that's it that's that's a basic trick of sleeping but there are lots of other ones IQ this isn't a periscope on sleep the point is that I've made it a life's mission to experiment and slowly build up a number of techniques that I can boost my serotonin and what I need to somebody in the comments mentioned eating a good steak now I don't eat red meat personally but I can tell you that there are days what I need protein and I need to fish because I do eat fish and I can absolutely tell the difference my my whole body and mind are not quite working and I realize oh my god I haven't had enough protein lately so I just go eat the protein and I feel better it works so you know the main levers that you have are let me

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the main levers that you have are let me just listen if you're having a problem with your mental health no matter what it is I'm not a mental health professional so you should not take any kind of medical advice from people who are not medical professions and and are not there in person but I can tell you this for sure whatever your situation is whether you have an actual medically defined problem or you're just a person who'd like to be happier if you're not rigorously looking for things to boost your body chemistry you're looking in the wrong place for happiness your happiness is just chemistry it's just chemical you know how to boost it get more sleep have physical contact hugging sex etc physical contact is 100% necessary for good mental health I don't think you can get there without some somebody's saying LS they I think

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somebody's saying LS they I think psychedelics I have a legitimate place in good mental health and we're going to find out a lot more about that in the coming coming years because all the trend is in that direction so you've got your make sure you got your diet right you got to get rid of the carbs get rid of the simple carbs exercise physical touch and then make sure that you've got something in your life to look forward to I like to have at least one project going on that even if my day is full of you know tedious stuff I just have to get done that I've always got that thing in my head it's like as soon as I'm done with this tedious stuff you spend a little time doing this cool thing that might change the world so I always have at least one change-the-world thing somebody in the comments is mentioning sunlight absolutely sunlight activities you enjoy a massage a little good entertainment now here's what you should

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entertainment now here's what you should avoid avoid toxic people avoid them like the plague cut them out of your life just don't return their phone calls that's it just don't even return their phone calls you don't have time for toxic people likewise do not consume entertainment that's awful awful meaning violent or scary or upsetting I don't even watch comedies that are about something bad happening to somebody you think there's the fair they get a divorce I won't even watch that those things depress your chemistry and even if he might and sad music don't listen to sad music sad movies sad TV show sad books get a Manning life all right so do more of watching this periscope here's my point wherever you are on the mental health spectrum most of it is at least

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spectrum most of it is at least influenced and you know affected by your serotonin level we know how to influence those things yeah get rid of alcohol too we know how to influence those things if you're if you're having any problems with your happiness and you're not looking to methodically create systems in which you can get those things you know will boost your serotonin and your dopamine if that's not your life process looking for those opportunities and systemising them what are you doing what's the alternative that let me tell you what the alternative is magical thinking most of you are trapped in magical thinking and by that I mean you're having a bad day what do you say when you have a bad day what do 99% of you say to yourself when you're having a bad day and you're unhappy and you're sad what you usually say is there's something going wrong today right you blame your situation

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today right you blame your situation something went wrong I'm I don't have the job I want there's somebody insulted me I you know I something went wrong I've got a stomachache or something now some of those things are real of course real problems can really influence you but pay attention to how often you can be happy anyway while all of your problems are exactly the same as they were get some exercise get some sleep eat some clean protein stay away from the carbs get a little Sun get a massage fine get a little physical touch if you can if you can work it out legally do those things yeah go for a walk spend some time with your dog and then see if you feel better even though your problems are exactly the same now do you also need to work on your problems that's good that's why I developed that's why I recommend having a system that's going to work on your problems over time so you feel like you have progress you do your system every day so that is my advice to you don't

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day so that is my advice to you don't use magical thinking and don't imagine that your happiness on any particular day is because of stuff that's happening it's only because you didn't get the big five or six things that boost your your dopamine and as they having this just I can tell you that you can develop it triggers and mental tricks to avoid the bad stuff and take yourself to thoughts thoughts actual just mental processes that will directly boost your body chemistry totally practical there's nothing magical about it all supported by science you don't have to worry that it's any anything it's all it's all science-based alright let's talk about some other stuff if you have not seen Dave Chappelle's brand new Netflix stand-up comedy clear your calendar is brand new there's a lot of Chapelle stand-up but I

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there's a lot of Chapelle stand-up but I think this was called sticks and stones I believe it went live yesterday now I would not say this about many entertainers but let me tell you if if you don't mind that you know there's a lot of f-bombs and very very challenging content meaning that if you watch the Appel your brains gonna go in a lot of different places and you're gonna feel uncomfortable until he pulls you back I watched his special and watching watching you know some people would say the best stand-up comedian of our current day I think a lot of people would say she felt would be the best but he's also at the top of his form you know he's had the most practice and experience he's at that age where oh my god
god it was so good so first of all I laughed all the way through it like I laughed until I felt I felt like I was having a

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until I felt I felt like I was having a stroke you know where you're you laughed so hard if you ever laughed so hard that all of your muscles free turned to rock like everything clean and your body like completely turns to stone for a moment and you don't know if you can breathe and then you're like good and then you laugh that's how funny he is now first of all let me say you know humor is subjective but he is really funny okay let me give you just a sample I don't want to ruin his show because you're gonna see clips from it because there's so many good parts you know you it could end up ruined for you too by seeing all the good parts well one of the the things he says is that if you want to if you want to fix the problem with too many guns what Chappelle suggests is that all black people go get a permit and buy a gun just think about Chappelle's solution to the gun problem is that all

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solution to the gun problem is that all black people 100% every black person in the United States goes out and gets a go
no it's funny but think about it just think about now the joke part is that he's suggesting that if all black people went and got guns that all the white people would say hey maybe we should make this illegal this is looking a little scary and so the joke is that white people would say hello that's enough guns let's put some put some restrictions on these guns now that's hilarious but it's also interesting like it makes it makes you actually think would that actually work because first of all if every black person had a gun a legal gun you know legal permit even the places where there's a lot of murder what would happen what would happen if every time anybody pulled out a gun everybody else pulled out a gun well I suppose who some situations where

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well I suppose who some situations where you like everybody would just shoot each other so I suppose that could be bad but it feels like nobody would pull out a gun if everybody else had a gun I know there's there's some evidence to suggest that the more armed the population is the fewer people will pull out a gun in public and try to shoot people so I know I have an opinion on the under gun laws so I'm not trying to give you an opinion I'm just telling you that watching Chappelle has a whole bunch of nuggets like that that really will challenge your political opinion while you're laughing it's it's probably the smartest stand up you're gonna see probably the smartest and also funniest all right let's talk about Greenland so there's still chatter about buying Greenland which i think is a tremendous idea if only Denmark would be willing to sell it to us but I wonder what do we charge for

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to us but I wonder what do we charge for what are we charged and marked for defending Greenland what do we charge them because before long Greenland will be in play you know if you assume that the art Arctic continues melting for change reasons or just because the earth is getting warmer pick pick your explanation but Greenland is just gonna get more important and I think they might have some minerals and some things that are good why don't we just charge Denmark for military protection because it might get expensive for Denmark they might say to themselves you know what would work even better why don't we lease you some basis let you do some mining if you want to you know you could have a presence in Greenland that's protective but we'll keep Greenland and Greenland will still belong to Denmark but we're going to optimize Greenland by allowing some

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optimize Greenland by allowing some American bases and also some leases so that American companies can get some minerals share it with Greenland you know everybody wins Greenland gets gets the money from the leases the world gets the minerals do we have to buy Greenland if it's insulting I say don't bother one of the things that people who do not have experience in business don't understand is that there are a lot of ways to buy things one way to buy things is to give money and then somebody gives you something that's the standard way another way to buy something is with a long-term lease effectively buying it would then actually buy it another way to buy something is to buy the good parts of it without buying the whole thing yeah you could rent it you could lease it you could have long term agreements about minerals in return for defense so you could have a contract

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defense so you could have a contract that gets you everything you want you don't have to own it you know it might it might be different if Denmark were an enemy or something but given that Denmark in the United States are quite friendly and are likely to remain that way there's probably another way to approach this it gets both countries what they want and if Denmark wants to maintain leadership or ownership of Greenland and the Greenland population wants good for them no problem there at all all right
did you see the I tweeted that Breitbart has once again done the the work of the Angels specifically Joel who went to a band or roark event and asked them in the little interviews that the reporters gathered around the candidate afterwards and bright Bart's Joel Pollock s Beto exactly as he asked Joe

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Pollock s Beto exactly as he asked Joe Biden that also made news if he understood that his the way he was describing the quote fine people quote was not true and that he was buying into the fine people hoax now joltin used that term but he stated that the better was interpretation of what the president said is just not what he said it's actually the opposite now what did better do when all of the news cameras were on him and he was accurately challenged on a main premise of his campaign and and Joel just said the actual quote was he condemned totally neo-nazis and white nationalists that was the actual quote now what do you do you've just been called out as a liar or or wrong either lying we're just wrong in public while you're running for president I'm not just a minor topic but

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president I'm not just a minor topic but the most important element of his entire campaign which is Trump called neo-nazis fine people which never happened what do you do well I gotta say he did really well benno kind of nailed it now his main campaign theme is a is inaccurate or a lie depending on whether he understands that it's not true or not we don't know but in terms of had a weasel ant of a damming question it was really good so here's what he did he ran out the clock so the first thing you do if you're being asked questions in public and you get a question you don't like you want to filibuster throw in the laundry list of unrelated things that are sort of related to the topic but not specifically to the question and then go to the next question and that's what he did but he did it really well if

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what he did but he did it really well if you want to see an example of a lying politician lying very successfully watch Beddoes move so instead of going directly at the question and saying no he actually did say that which would be fact checked the next day does that you know if a question if if a reporter says this is not true and beto says directly it is true it's exactly what he said now you get a fact checker right you're you're basically begging the fact checkers the fact checker and that's not going to work out for him so what does he do he just starts talking about a laundry list of all the other things the president has done that supports his case even though his facts are wrong and next question pretty pretty good job but I do love the fact that Joel is is forcing them all to go on the record on this even though he avoided doing it it's it's a great it's

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avoided doing it it's it's a great it's a great process to watch as a voter as a citizen it's fun to watch them I have to explain their their lies alright Joe Biden said and I quote I want to be clear I'm not going nuts now this is when a savonius many gaffes if you want to be president here's something you should never say in public I want to be clear I'm not going nuts compare that to president Trump's his usual way of responding is
more indirect which is better way because you don't want people quoting you saying you're not going nuts that is so incompetent compare that to Beto Beto quite Abele changed the

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Beto Beto quite Abele changed the subject to get out of an embarrassing situation Biden just made his embarrassing situation worse by going directly at it so you can learn something from this he goes directly at it I'm not going nuts what's that make everybody think oh you're going nuts you can't read I'm not going nuts and have any thought other than I think he's going nuts so that's bad now there's a Monmouth Monmouth Monmouth Monmouth poll that showed a three-way tie basically with Sanders Warren and Biden which would indicate that Biden had had dropped quite a bit from the last major poll but the mom north pole is not a major poll it's a small sample and it may not be representative but is it important yep it is because the Monmouth poll is the one that's suggesting that there could

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one that's suggesting that there could be a change coming so the Monmouth is sort of like the canary in the coalmine the saying oh there could be a poll that shows that Biden is no longer the most electable because remember Biden's entire benefit you know the reason he's running is he's the most electable that's just that's his story but as soon as one poll shows you're in a three-way tie your story is badly wounded all it's going to take is one more poll to agree with the the Monmouth bubble and you got yourself a problem you'll only take one more and what would cause the next poll to agree with the modern North Pole what would cause it the maaan North Pole I don't want to say mon mouth anyone even more time because I can't pronounce it Mon both the mom off poll just say it

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Mon both the mom off poll just say it like you have a lot of cotton in your mouth with mono fold so the mumble of poll should be seen as persuasion persuasion because everybody who saw that poll and had been a supporter Biden just went uh-oh now they might also say well I don't trust that poll I'm gonna wait and see a lot of people will do that and I want to influence them at all and if the next poll is different if the next poll differs with this one and Biden still got a commanding lead well the Monmouth one wolf poll will have no importance but I suspect the Monmouth poll gives people both a reason and a fake because to change their mind on Biden for the professionals it gives them some cover because if the professionals say hey you know we gave it our best shot we put him out there we

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it our best shot we put him out there we worked as hard as we could the people have spoken he dropped in the polls he's no longer the electable candidate we thought he was and now we can change to another horse so I think the Monmouth poll is really important because it might influence the next poll in the poll after that and then it becomes self reinforcing so I believe that the media is taking a soft stand on this because the media doesn't want to take Biden out directly they could CNN could take Biden out tomorrow you know that right MSNBC either one of them New York Times they could do it Washington Post any one of the big media companies that normally back the Democrats any one of them could take Biden an in the race with one story and that story simply has to suggest he's not electable that's it just say it once and some big story and a big publication everybody else will refer to the story

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everybody else will refer to the story and that gives them cover it's like well not me saying this I would never insult Biden but man look what that publication said that's all it would take but I don't think the press wants to be the you know the Godzilla that's stomping on Bambi because whatever's going on with Biden I just have empathy for him he's a certain age he's trying to help I think he really is trying to do what he thinks is best for the country I don't have bad feelings about Biden whatsoever I just don't think he's got the game anymore to be in that kind of a job all right
so one of the funny things happening is that the the media is trying to now build a new narrative around the question of is Trump losing it now this would be a good defense against his Biden gapping too much in this Biden loose so they're you know the the hoax

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loose so they're you know the the hoax is on the anti-trump side the hoax is sort of cycle and it's all about Russia okay it's not about Russia but he's definitely a racist all right it's not a racist but look at that instability in his mental instability okay well if the mental instability doesn't seem to be hurting us in any important way it's just hyperbole what about Russia so they just sort of cycle through the big hoaxes one at a time but they're definitely getting more purchase on the Trump is in unstable than they would have normally just because they have some fodder to work with so here the some of the things that they're referring to to suggest the Trump is losing it so Trump I guess Trump referred to he said that Melania was also you know liked kim jeong-hoon but turns out the Melania has never met Kim and it was a

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Melania has never met Kim and it was a there's a great reaction shot of Melania in the audience when President Trump said and yeah she likes Kim too and Melania is like I do now I never met him now is that evidence bed Trump is crazy because he suggested that Melania met Kim no any more than it's crazy that that Biden forgot was stadia was in when he was in New Hampshire he said he was in Vermont none of it is really terribly surprising if you imagine the complexity of being president or even the complexity of running for president all the people you're meeting all the places you are oh is it likely that you'll remember even basic facts like one state you're in or did Melania meet Kansas it what are the odds that you would forget even

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the odds that you would forget even basic facts pretty good pretty good how many people have told me in person that their best friend went to school with me in some state where I've never gone to school a lot ordinary people have false memories all the time now what makes any of it look bothers them is that you have too many of them so what the the anti Biden people are you know collecting up all of his gaffes to make it look like a trend I don't know if it is or not because he's always been gaff broom likewise they're doing the same thing with President Trump to say hey the number of things you say which do not pass the fact-checking seems to be increasing is it they've got 11 thousand things he said that didn't pass the fact-checking but lately there's more of it really do we really know that there's lately there's more on it I doubt it my take on

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there's more on it I doubt it my take on Trump is that he's got some go to things he says in every situation one of the go-to things he says is that other people agree with him right what the most common go-to thing that trumped-up and say lots of people are saying lots of people are agreeing with me somebody came up to me and said mister you're so right sir right it's the most common thing he does somebody came up and agreed with me lots of times it didn't happen does it matter not really because we've been watching him for years and the OE says somebody agrees with me and then you check it out and that person wasn't there didn't agree doesn't matter he just uses as his part as persuasion and it doesn't seem to make any difference I don't know you know it didn't blow her my income didn't make the world a worse place it was just

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make the world a worse place it was just persuasion in a direction that he wants you to be persuaded which is different from just being crazy if we saw that Trump was missing facts in the wrong direction I'd be pretty worried but yes every time Trump is caught in what the fact checkers say is in let's say an inaccuracy if every time he does it it's in the service of persuading you in a way that you say well actually I would want to be persuaded that way I would like to thank the president Trump and Kim jong-un can get along I would also like Kim jong-un to think that remembered when the president's talking to the public he's also talking to Putin he's also talking to President Xi and he's also talking to Kim jong-un he's not talking to us alone he's talking to them and so when he's telling us in public not only do I like Kim jong-un

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public not only do I like Kim jong-un personally but my wife likes him too wasn't true but don't you think it's good that Kim jong-un is hearing good things about him personally and his personal relationship yeah it's good of course it's good because Kim jong-un would like to have a good personal relationship makes everything work better all right the other things the president's being questioned on is well there's the hurricane thing let's talk about the hurricane thing so the report was that from asked supposedly repeatedly in on different days or different events he's asked the question why can't you nuke a hurricane and of course what do all the smart people say well let me call him Dale to give you the reaction from all the smart people can you nuke a hurricane oh don't

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people can you nuke a hurricane oh don't you know don't you know you can't nuke a hurricane ya see here's my question Kenny Nuka hurricane do you know the answer to that so here's the question if President Trump had ever said Kenya Nuka hurricane and if his staff member said I've never even thought about that let me find out and they went out and they they found some information maybe you or they didn't and then the next time the president thinks of it nobody's gotten back to him what would you say if you said can you nuclear hurricane and your staff said ah no we'll look into it and then the next time you think of it you say it again so can you nuclear hurricane and what is this staff say we'll look into it because they probably don't know or

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because they probably don't know or they've checked with one person and they say no do you find it crazy that he would ask the question can you nuke Oh hurricane I don't it may I'm certainly willing to believe it's not a workable idea but it's not crazy to ask the question here's why how many nuclear explosions have there been above ground in the comments tell me how many you think have happened how many nuclear explosions have already happened in our history above ground give me a guess how many nuclear explosions have happened above ground well you know we've tested some nukes we know other countries at essence of nukes you know we've used nukes in World War two against Japan but how many nuclear explosions have happened above ground hundreds right somebody same four that's what I would

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somebody same four that's what I would have guessed I would guess like twenty something like that the answer is hundreds hundreds of nuclear explosions above ground are you radioactive I'm not is there a place in the world that you can't go to maybe I don't I don't know buddy I mean you don't want to go to Chernobyl but that wasn't a nuclear bomb it was a different kind of nuclear accident so I asked you if we can explode we meaning the entire planet hundreds of nuclear weapons above ground what does that tell you about the risk of nuclear fallout well it tells me I don't really understand it because the experts are saying you know it's a bad idea a nuclear fallout blah blah and I don't disagree I just wonder why all those other nuclear disasters are not

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those other nuclear disasters are not bothering us at the moment why not so here's the question I asked first of all there's the physics question of would it work and I have to think that a bomb would maybe change something I don't know change an air pressure or mess up something so I don't know if it'd work that's a separate question but I can tell you that scientists have asked the question too it's a serious enough question that legitimist scientists have looked into it now the issue is that there would be you know fallout but here's the question where exactly would you be nuking it if you nuked it close to land well that sounds like a terrible idea if you nuked it further into the middle of the ocean but still where it's kind of knew before I picks up steam where would the radiation go with the hurricane winds make the radiation much worse because it would

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radiation much worse because it would spread it worse or would it make it less worse because it would dilute it by spreading it over such a large distance quickly which way would that go I don't know so to say that it was a dumb question I believe is uneducated it was a smart question they had an answer he probably didn't get the first time he has to now I Trump is denying that he asked the question which might be a perfectly legitimate political thing to do and my guess is that maybe it just came up he may have just tossed it out as you know something say curiosity etc so he may never have been serious about it we don't know but it's not a terrible thing to bring up now a lot of people don't know that there are serious people scientists who say you probably could reduce the Atlantic hurricanes by

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reduce the Atlantic hurricanes by reforesting the deserts in northern Africa and the way you would do that is actually known we know how to do that all you do is you take livestock and you put them on the border of where there there is vegetation and where there's desert and those borders are pretty pretty easy to find so you bring your livestock out there they eat the vegetation that's on the vegetated side and then they wander into the desert aside and they poop and that brings some seeds and some things into the desert side and you check back next year and the vegetation portion had begins to creep into the desert and you can just repeat this and you can fairly quickly meaning over a number of you know a few number of years you could reforest deserts it's it's a known thing we've we've tested it it works and if you were to reforest the deserts you would lower the temperature over the over the northern africa where hurricanes have

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northern africa where hurricanes have form and so they might still form but they form smaller because it would be less of a difference in the temperature that's real so it looks like yeah and then somebody else mentioned if you use nuclear power to power your desalinization then you've also got water for your getting rid of your deserts so yes we could actually use science to decrease hurricanes that's a real thing now whether a nuke ever makes sense I'm no expert seems dangerous to me but I don't think it's crazy it's not crazy speaking of nuclear Andrew yang became the only credible voice on climate change yesterday let me say that again Andrew yang became the only only credible voice running for president on the topic of climate change because he

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the topic of climate change because he is pointedly putting nuclear energy as a main part of the solution not the only solution but a one of the primary parts now he focuses on thorium reactors and I think experts you know would have different opinions about whether that specific technology is where you want to go versus generation four in general which would be a number of technologies that that would have some advantages so if we can ignore these specific suggestion about thorium and generalize a little bit to new technologies for for nuclear yang is the only one who suggested something that could work and on top of that if you don't think that climate change is a problem it's still a good idea because nuclear energy is cheaper safer or better this is just a better deal so yang is the only

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better deal so yang is the only candidate who has a suggestion for what the Democrats consider the biggest problem in the world climate change he's the only one who has an even potentially effective solution how did the other candidates respond to that and by the way even if you think climate change is not a problem like I said you still want nuclear because it's cheaper better and cleaner energy than anything else now you know you can still do all the solar you want but you're going to need the nuclear to fill in the gaps to do - alright so I invited Andrew yang to drop into my periscope today and I told them just to text me if you wanted to obviously he's busy or not interested

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obviously he's busy or not interested but he just became the the most interesting candidate on the Democrat side now that doesn't mean he'll necessarily make it into the top three because he's got a lot of competition but he's the only interesting one he also made a statement about nutrition and he mentioned that if we're talking about health care we should talk about nutrition and make a bigger play to improve nutrition in this country what do most Republicans say most Republicans say stay away from my food you don't tell me what to eat I like my food no government's gonna tell me what to eat and that's fine freedom is good you think government does not need to tell you what to eat other pundits I think stefan molyneux made this comment it's like oh great here comes the food pyramid that worked out great you

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pyramid that worked out great you remember the food pyramid for years was completely opposite of good nutrition because the the food industry was sort of behind it not sort of behind it they were they were behind it so the government was telling us what to eat and they were telling us need a bunch of carbs which basically were killing us so you can't really trust the government to tell you what to eat but Andrew yang is not the government unlike almost everybody else in government he would actually know the difference between what a good diet looked like per science and what a bad diet looked like per science in fact he might be the only candidate who was willing to consider science as important that feels like an overstatement but what are the other candidates talking about nuclear energy if they're not talking about nuclear energy to solve climate change they can't make any claim to be scientifically compatible because

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scientifically compatible because science is pretty pro-nuclear likewise science has a pretty good idea what you should eat and what you shouldn't we think I hope there I hope they're better at it now so yes in Andrew yang is right on food completely misunderstood and unders under the same we don't have enough energy in that direction the government could be a good we'll say a good role model and a good influence but you don't want the government telling you what to eat I know you don't um let's talk about the Amazon fire hoax so Mike Tsarevich again proving why everybody in the world should be following him on Twitter and reading his books Mike said ovitch I believe was the first person of note who looked into this claim that the Amazon is burning and it's and it's some kind of a bigger problem than we've seen in the past it

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problem than we've seen in the past it turns out the Amazon is burning sort of like it always does every every year about normal and some of the some portion of it is farmers burning it places they burned in the past etc so there was no crisis in the Amazon on top of that people were saying yeah the long thing I'm gonna a lot of people who love the earth have referred to the Amazon as the lungs of the planet as in if you lose the amaz we won't be able to absorb enough co2 so you'd lose your lungs and then the planet ends up destroying yourself but it turns out nothing like that is true apparently the the Amazon basin creates the bad as much co2 as it as it uses I think I'm saying that right but the point is that the idea that the

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but the point is that the idea that the Amazon is special meaning that it is uniquely the lungs of the planet there's no evidence of anything like that it probably has no more effect than you know anything else so this was like a major story everywhere apparently apparently all of the photographs and videos of the Amazon basin fire all of the ones that went viral all of them were fake think about that all of the images that went viral there were some real ones too but they didn't go viral but all of the ones that went viral were all fake there were different years or different places think about that they were all fake amazing somebody's saying that I should have said that the lungs of the world the Amazon basis I should have been talking about oxygen not co2 either way and you might be right about that but either way the point is that

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that but either way the point is that it's not a special place it's not though there's nothing world's lungs all right
apparently Israel when Israel attacks some Iranian operatives in Syria and said they were getting ready for a churro and strike it was much worse than we were led to believe I mean the potential strike was much worse apparently the the drone attack that was being planned was going to be a swarm and it would have been the first time we've seen it hadn't succeeded they swarm meaning a whole bunch of drones we don't know how many but a bunch of them programmed with the GPS coordinates of one place so that they could all just take off in math and you know and they would have a bomb on them and it would end up at the same place and blow things up and it would be too hard to shoot them all down because there'd be a lot of them so Israel took them out but there are

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Israel took them out but there are continued stories of testing this stuff and apparently it's going to be fairly trivial to send a swarm of small drones to a destination within a few feet and make it blow up could we ever stop that probably not so I've I've been predicting for some time and and large outdoor gatherings I think we'll just see one of these attacks and that will be the end you know but that if you see one of these attacks succeed you may not see Stadium events again it may be the end of it I don't know how you defend against it maybe again
apparently president Trump did not attend some climate meetings while claiming that he had some I don't conflict or something and people are in fact checking into this they always do here's my take it's sort of a bad look

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here's my take it's sort of a bad look so the optics of being the only country that doesn't go to the climate meetings it's not a good look but it wouldn't be much of a good look for him to go he had two ways to lose and going would have been a problem because everybody would beat him up and he doesn't believe that it's a real problem and not going would be a problem so let me remind you of some bottom line on climate and I want you to fact-check me on this because I don't think anybody says it feels like nobody says anything accurate about the climate it's almost like it can't be done doesn't matter which side you're on I've read just enough about the climate that when the when the skeptics or the scientists talk I say to myself I hear but feels like you're leaving in important thing here so here are some of the things I know there are let's say two major ways to check temperature to

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two major ways to check temperature to know if things have warmed recently one way broadly speaking is measurements on the surface so there'd be thermometers on the land and various ways that you've got buoys and picking up water and stuff on the ocean so there are a number ways to measure the temperature on the Earth's surface and as and when they do that they say oh it's getting unprecedented ly that even word the warming is unprecedented
but if you take satellite measurements since the dawn of satellites 70s I think they don't show the warming's what's the difference between the satellites that don't show the global warming at least the co2 cause warming and the terrestrial ones well here's something that everybody agrees the satellites are accurate the terrestrial measurements

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accurate the terrestrial measurements are not so we have two major two major ways of measuring the warmth the accurate one says it's not happening the in the accurate one says it is but it's better it's better than that among the inaccurate or lesser accurate measurements the terrestrial ones the ones on the ground and in the ocean there are ones that are better than other ones on the ground for example the the measurements taken in the United States are higher quality than the measurements taken in some third-world countries and other places now why are the US measurements better quality well for one thing if if there's an urban island that grows up around them they'll relocate it because they know that being near a parking lot for example will heat up your thermometer another way that the US thermometers are better is that the casing needs to be painted white so in the

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needs to be painted white so in the United States if they see that the paint is starting to you know brown or whatever color returns they'll repaint it so you always have a white painted enclosure for your thermometers in the United States but in some third-world countries they're not as good at repainting them and their and their thermometer casing is brown which should make the temperature look higher now of those two the ones that are more accurate in the United States versus the ones around the world that are relatively less accurate which ones show the warming well not the ones in the United States so the the ones on the ground that are the most accurate apparently don't show the warming now the climate experts will say but that doesn't mean anything because it's a global problem and it could easily be true that there are major places on the

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true that there are major places on the earth where you don't see the warming but there are other places you do it's the average you have to worry about so here's the thing the following everything that I just said might not be true so if there's one thing I could teach you about climate change is that everything you think you know no matter which side you're on or even if you haven't taken the side every fact you think you know about climate change this highly subject to be wrong I've put a lot of time into studying this as a as an amateur right just as a consumer as a citizen who wants to understand it and I can tell you you can't you can't get there you could fool yourself and think you did but you can't it's just too complicated there are too many inconsistencies you'd have to really be a scientist and live in that world and have access to every part of it at a detailed level to really have an opinion I would trust so the problem is that our

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I would trust so the problem is that our best measurements show don't show the warming alarming our worst measurements do does that mean there's no warming no doesn't mean that it's entirely possible that all the warming is happening satellites are not picking it up us is different from the rest of it it's entirely possible you can't make a conclusion from the you know the few facts that I just laid out there now here's another thing don't most people tell you that it's the end of the world climate change but yet their own figures show a 10.5% reduction in GDP in 80 years which any economist will tell you you wouldn't even notice you wouldn't notice so the worst economic disaster scenarios are that you probably won't notice no matter what it is so fact check me on all of that feel free to tweet me and tell me what I

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feel free to tweet me and tell me what I got wrong because I'm sure I did get some of the world all right let's talk about here's one of my favorite tweets James Toronto Toronto I opened pronouncing right James Toronto of Wall Street Journal talking about George Conway you know Kellyanne Conway's husband he keeps tweeting that Trump is crazy and so every day George Conway is tweeting the Trump is crazy Trump is courting crazy must be removed what Trump is not removed every day is the same as the day before and so James Toronto cleverly noted in his tweet quote George Conway's definition of sanity is tweeting the same thing over and over and expecting a different result that's right George Conway tweets the same thing over and over but he expects to get a different result now

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expects to get a different result now that's more clever than you know scientifically true but it's pretty clever all right brian Stelter says we must talk about Trump's fitness for office sure let's do that we'll do that in 2020 all right I reminded you yesterday that my startup the interphase app interface by Wynn up which is a free download now has a professional mode so you could have all of your professional advisors for whatever organization you are on your webpage just copy and paste our code that we give you put it on your webpage and you'll have a button to connect you immediately to your customers and they won't even have to have your contact information so we're putting on people who are helping people who are addicted we're putting on doctors lawyers engineers all kinds of experts are on there and the newest

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